Truck driver. Where do you live?
Nothing here needs an account and nothing about you is sent. Pressing a state is itself the request: our server receives the name of a line of work and a two-letter state, because they are in the address of the next page, and nothing else. Not who asked, not anything you have answered anywhere else on this site. Being in the address also means they are in your browser history.
Before you spend time on this
Driving as a main job duty is heavily restricted under 18 — a 17-year-old may drive only occasionally, in daylight, in a small vehicle, close to home, and never as the main task. Interstate commercial driving is closed under 21.
A CDL can be earned at 18 for intrastate work in most states. Warehouse, dispatch and yard roles are open earlier and are how most drivers start.
HO-2 (motor-vehicle driving and outside helper) · 29 C.F.R. part 570, subpart E (Hazardous Occupations Orders). Our reading, not legal advice. State law is often stricter than the federal floor, and several orders carry apprentice and student-learner exemptions.
Choose a state
The figure beside each state is every live posting we can see there, in every line of work, not just this one. It is context for how much the index knows about that state.
- Alabama20,633
- Alaska9,529
- Arizona27,620
- Arkansas18,078
- California102,922
- Colorado27,386
- Connecticut17,462
- Delaware9,967
- District of Columbia3,538
- Florida39,986
- Georgia29,525
- Hawaii3,645
- Idaho12,529
- Illinois38,197
- Indiana24,821
- Iowa17,158
- Kansas16,854
- Kentucky17,849
- Louisiana16,843
- Maine11,275
- Maryland28,769
- Massachusetts33,147
- Michigan28,915
- Minnesota31,248
- Mississippi21,214
- Missouri35,781
- Montana16,362
- Nebraska21,772
- Nevada22,634
- New Hampshire21,138
- New Jersey40,677
- New Mexico22,235
- New York56,199
- North Carolina45,915
- North Dakota16,077
- Ohio48,572
- Oklahoma16,424
- Oregon28,609
- Pennsylvania49,611
- Puerto Rico95
- Rhode Island15,057
- South Carolina33,677
- South Dakota16,818
- Tennessee25,345
- Texas59,891
- Utah17,682
- Vermont795
- Virginia37,673
- Washington9,809
- West Virginia10,523
- Wisconsin21,494
- Wyoming534
What this work is
Drive a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,001 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW).
Some preparation — a few months to a year · O*NET calls it Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers · we search for postings titled “CDL Driver”, a term kept only because at least half the postings it finds are really titled that.